Top 34 Clich Quotes
#1. The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
#2. [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#3. The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
Christine De Pizan
#4. There are no atheists in the foxhole.
Ernie Pyle
#5. I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.
George Carlin
#6. IT'S NEVER TOO LATE
It's never too late to look after yourself. Never too late to eat healthily, get plenty of rest, exercise regularly and look after your skin. You'd be amazed at how quickly your skin and body can rejuvenate given the right environment.
Jana Elston
#7. That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.
Wallace Stegner
#9. The occurrence of a highly improbable event is the equivalent of the nonoccurrence of a highly probable one
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#11. They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
D.H. Lawrence
#12. It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#14. I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
David LaChapelle
#16. The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.
David Filo
#18. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia Woolf
#19. Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
Umberto Eco
#20. Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
Christine De Pizan
#21. When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
Bette Davis
#22. What's the difference? You ask me
The difference is, a smile touches my lips
When I remember both the memory of you entering my life
And the memory of you leaving my life
Tammy-Louise Wilkins
#23. Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?
Julian Fellowes
#24. Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.
Joanne Harris
#25. I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.
Ann Aguirre
#27. Have you tried?" Tove countered, his eyes sparkling.
"Well ... no," I admitted.
"Do it."
"How?"
He shrugged. "Figure it out."
"You're really good at this training thing," I said with a sigh.
Amanda Hocking
#28. What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#30. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#31. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia Woolf
#32. Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?'
She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.
L.J.Smith
#33. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#34. Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.
Elie Wiesel
